title: E-prescribing in Greece: myth or reality.
abstract: The economic crisis, as well as the need to improve patient safety, enhance healthcare services and reduce medical costs made Greek payers to support the implementation and usage of a national electronic prescribing system. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate physicians' attitudes towards e-Prescribing for suggesting improvements. Despite the fact that the physicians were generally satisfied with the e-prescribing system, the benefits of its use were not realized. Moreover, the authors identified key barriers, such as (1) system's unavailability, (2) time to adjust and adapt to e-prescribing, (3) change management issues, (4) lack of training, (5) Information Technology (IT) requirements and (6) medical coding limitations.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, University of Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Elli
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Krania
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Avgerinou
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Limaki
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bartzis
authors.forename: Vassiliki
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Mantzana
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D055695:Electronic Prescribing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006115:Greece; D010820:Physicians / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*